Mariachi Potosino were so ubiquitous around Chicago for so many decades, it was not always clear, outside Chicago’s Mexican neighborhoods, if they were appreciated, never mind understood.
A charro suit stands in an exhibit on the band Mariachi Potosino and its leader José Cruz Alba at the National Museum of Mexican Art on W. 19th Street in Chicago, Feb. 29, 2024. The suit was worn by Cruz Alba. José Cruz Alba occupied the center oval of a very small Venn diagram: He rubbed shoulders with both Richard Nixon and the Black Panther Party, Richard J. Daley and Jane Byrne.
“You could say we were not welcome on Taylor Street. This was the 1960s. Six of us get out of this station wagon, wearing the hats, wearing the whole outfits, and we cross the street to play a 25th wedding anniversary. This guy comes out of his apartment and tells us to get the hell out of here, then he pulls out this gun, so I step in front of my father, and the guy fires two or three shots, and I feel a burning sensation in my groin. And we’re arrested. Cops are everywhere.
By the time he died in 2002, he’d befriended several of the city’s mayors and scores of aldermen. It wasn’t a bad thing for the Mexican American community to build those ties. For 30 years, José Cruz Alba — whose widow even now gets a regular pension check because of her husband’s membership in the Local 10-208, the Chicago Federation of Musicians — moved 55-gallon chemical drums all day at a factory. Initially, he was considered bracero, part of a program that allowed Mexicans to work temporarily in the United States.
Mariachi Potosino — at first a novelty in Chicago, his son Amador said — created a sizable following. They appeared on local television, “Eddie Korosa’s Polka Party” and “International Cafe.” They landed a minor regional radio hit with a bolero-tinged love song, “You Will Cry, You Will Cry.” Members came and went — nearly two dozen across 61 years. But José Cruz Alba was always the director, the face.
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